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North Carolina Senate District 47

Tue, Nov 3 · Represented by Ralph Hise Republican · Member list as of Oct 28

Ralph HiseRepublican · Incumbent14 years since first win on file

Ralph Hise 64.2Frank Patton Hughes III 35.9

Last result · 2024 generalNo published poll names both candidates.

Frank Patton Hughes IIIDemocratic

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North Carolina Senate District 47: Frank Patton Hughes III vs Ralph Hise

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Ralph Hise (Republican) won by 28.3 points, 2024
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Years since first win on file
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History (12 elections for this seat)

Last contest in this district on file: 2024.

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Election Wrld. (2026). North Carolina Senate District 47, election results 2002 to 2024. https://www.electionwrld.com/nc/senate/47. Retrieved October 30, 2026.

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Sources: Census TIGERweb Legislative MapServer (120th CDs layer 0, 119th CDs layer 4, 2026 SLD upper layer 1 and lower layer 2) (US Census Bureau, public domain), retrieved Oct 28, 2026; Open Civic Data division identifiers (census_autogenerated us_sldl/us_sldu and openstates state files); also (sld-recent.json): Open Civic Data division identifiers (country-us) (CC0 (repository); also (sld-recent.json): CC0 1.0), retrieved Oct 28, 2026; Open States people (current) CSVs (CC0-1.0 (Open States people data)), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by Open States volunteers and staff (rosters from state legislature sites) from official returns, not an official source; MEDSL 2024 official precinct returns (individual_states zips) (Not stated in the GitHub repository (an earlier label said "MIT (repo)", which the repository does not support). MEDSL's Harvard Dataverse records are CC0 1.0, but these GitHub files were not checksum-matched to the Dataverse files, so CC0 is not claimed for them.), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL) from official returns, not an official source; State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse) (CC0 1.0), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by Carl Klarner (Harvard Dataverse) from official returns, not an official source.

District id: ocd-division/country:us/state:nc/sldu:47

DataState data (JSON)Sources: State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse), DIME (ODC-BY)Data as of Oct 28, 2026